LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Giltwood

Measurements:

95.67 in. (243.00 cm.) (height) by 48.03 in. (122.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Provenance:

Almost certainly commissioned by Ambrose Isted for Ecton Hall, Northamptonshire and inherited with the house in 1881 by Charles William Hamilton Sotheby. Major Gen. F. E. Sotheby of Ecton Hall, Northamptonshire, sold Sotheby's, London, 14 October 1955, lot 124, where acquired by 'How of Edinburgh' on behalf of the present owner. In the 1955 sale the smaller pair of two-branch girandoles was described as lot 124 (£1150) while the larger pair of three-branch girandoles was lot 123 (£500). However, the two-branch girandoles were illustrated as lot 123 and the prices realised suggest that lot 124 was in fact the larger three-branch girandoles or else there was a bidding war for them.